Caroline Simpson Collection

Captain George Dalhousie Jolliffe Raitt, 1837/ Thomas Wingate

Wingate, Thomas, 1807-1869.

1837

1 watercolour on paper: col ; 10.3 x 8.7 cm.

Partial inscription in ink on lower left of image: [Be]lgaum 1837. Identified in pencil (in Wingate's hand) at a later date: Major G.D.J. Raitt

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army officers
Raitt, George Dalhousie Jolliffe, 1807-1843.

Wingate album

This small watercolour sketch is pasted in on page 65 of a leather-bound folio album containing 62 sketches and watercolours and 33 early photographs, many signed by or attributable to Thomas Wingate (1807-69), former British army officer and second husband of Eleanor Terry nee Rouse (1813-1898).
The subject of the sketch, George Dalhousie Jolliffe Raitt, was born in Mapledurham, Oxfordshire, England, in September 1807, eldest son of Lieut-Colonel George Edward Raitt of the 2nd, or Queen's Royal Regiment of Foot, and his wife Frances Jane Jolliffe. He followed his father into the 2nd Foot: commissioned an ensign in 1835, captain in 1831, brevet major in 1839 (after being wounded in the siege of Ghuznee (Ghazni) during the First Anglo-Afghan War), and major in 1841. He died from sunstroke at Mount Abu, Rajasthan, India, in 1843.
Raitt and Wingate were fellow officers in the 2nd Foot, sharing the experience of British Army life in cantonment in India in the 1830s and the early campaigns of the First Anglo-Afghan War 1839-1842. [MM, June 2017]

The Miriam & Ian Hamilton Collection

Caroline Simpson Library & Research Collection ; CSL&RC PIC 2015/3: Wingate album

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